Sooner than Soon™© (codename i27p5,2nds)

[Troo]

Sooner than Soon™©℠® I guess. Issue 27 Page 5 is Live! ?? (guessing Tuesday)

 

[                                here's what my loading screen looks like                                ]

 

https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/38375-staging-patch-notes-for-october-16th-2022-issue-27-second-chances-page-5/

 

My regular "Huge Announcement" is still a work in progress.. sniped!

 

Issue 27, Page 5 (Second Chances)

[            MASTERMIND PALOOZA - THE IRONY & THE LONG GOODBYE            ]

[                                                                                                                               ]

[                                                    Respec-O-Rama                                               ]

[                                      Torches, Pitchforks & You                                     ]

[                                        Get Ready to Get Ready                                       ]

[                            Why We Can't Have Nice Things                                       ]

[                                                      Trick or Treat                                        ]

[                                     All Saints' Day  All Hallows' Eve                              ]

[                                           Thanks for Playing                                           ]

 

 

Edited October 17, 2022 by Troo

[Spaghetti Betty]

Perfect. Soon the anxiety I've been experiencing opening up my character screen and seeing how many toons I wanna respec will turn into sheer horror as I begin the process of respeccing every toon I want to respec.

[MoonSheep]

honey, bring me my internet argument jacket - a new update is about to land on that game i play!

[TheZag]

3 hours ago, Spaghetti Betty said:

Perfect. Soon the anxiety I've been experiencing opening up my character screen and seeing how many toons I wanna respec will turn into sheer horror as I begin the process of respeccing every toon I want to respec.

 

Anxiety and horror,  sounds like they nailed it for your Halloween.

 

[tidge]

2 hours ago, Spaghetti Betty said:

Perfect. Soon the anxiety I've been experiencing opening up my character screen and seeing how many toons I wanna respec will turn into sheer horror as I begin the process of respeccing every toon I want to respec.

 

I've been looking through my (rather small by comparison to some players) roster of lvl 50 characters to prioritize respecs. Aside from the Masterminds, the (quasi-planned) respecs seem to fall into two categories:

• Swapping out the T2 in the secondary for the T1 (there are fewer than I expected for my roster)
• Delaying pool powers (typically X -> Tough -> Weave) to get the 22, 24, 26, 28, 30 flow of primary/secondary powers (and sometimes smooth out Epic pool choices)

I haven't looked at all the ATs yet, but I was surprised that it was my Dark/Rad Defender (Offender, really) that is likely to have the largest net reshuffle of powers, with 5 powers to be reshuffled by 22, and then all of them re-ordered after that point.

 

On my Blasters and Dominators, I find myself reluctant to delay Tough/Weave (from mid 20s to much later), yet I'll probably figure some way to make nukes available as early as possible. Some Doms will swap T1/T2. VEATs (after lvl 24 respec) already progressed very smoothly for me, I'm not sure I want to touch them... but all my VEATs have 3 builds, so I will play with the 3rd build.

 

I have one Stalker (keeping Hide, thanks!) that I think will exemplar much smoother with a reshuffle of powers between 22 and 32. It exemplars just fine now, but having the primary T9 at level 30 and the secondary T7 at 24 should be a big deal.

[High_Beam]

I am looking forward to it.  I do not have as many alts as I used to so I am not having anxiety -  mostly.  The first pass will be mostly about tweaking and fine tuning as opposed to shifting major alignments for earlier usability.  Most alts are not exemping down any more so its not a super problem.

 

- Mercs MM - The two upgrades and adding serum.  Fortunately I had some trash pool powers I could dump and realign slots.

- DP/Ninja Blaster - Secondary selection change allows me to dump tranq dart and be extra swordy.

- Fire/Fire Sentinel - Some tweaking relating to alterations to certain powers and an evaluation of Power of the Phoenix becoming a tool and not just a rez like that Dark one that stuns people . . . Noisy Death Stun . . . Howling Twilight.

 

Now later on, when the OCD wakes me up at 3 AM and I am unable to get back to sleep because I am thinking about 108 permutations of Kinetics on a DP Corruptor, then I will have an issue.

[Troo]

36 minutes ago, High_Beam said:

I do not have as many alts as I used

 

What happened to your alts?!

Did you 'eliminate' them?!

[arcane]

Troo threads stink

[PeregrineFalcon]

I'm really surprised to see them adding this update during the Halloween season event.

 

I'm glad though. It means all of my shiney new Sentinels will be able to solo all the new ToT EBs that so many seem to be having such trouble with.  🤪

 

I am going to miss Force Bubble though.  😭

[High_Beam]

35 minutes ago, Troo said:

 

What happened to your alts?!

Did you 'eliminate' them?!

Heheh.  I made several promises to myself of what I would and wouldn't do on Homecoming versus live and one of them was a billion alts I never carried through on.  I am not unhappy with the result.  Sometimes I play them and like them then move them to Everlasting because I might revisit them.  Others, yeah, eliminated with extreme prejudice after stripping everything form them.  Oh the manual merit transfer mails 😞

[Luminara]

10 hours ago, Troo said:

Sooner than Soon™©℠® I guess. Issue 27 Page 5 is Live! ?? (guessing Tuesday)

 

[                                here's what my loading screen looks like                                ]

 

https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/38375-staging-patch-notes-for-october-16th-2022-issue-27-second-chances-page-5/

 

My regular "Huge Announcement" is still a work in progress.. sniped!

 

Issue 27, Page 5 (Second Chances)

[            MASTERMIND PALOOZA - THE IRONY & THE LONG GOODBYE            ]

[                                                                                                                               ]

[                                                    Respec-O-Rama                                               ]

[                                      Torches, Pitchforks & You                                     ]

[                                        Get Ready to Get Ready                                       ]

[                            Why We Can't Have Nice Things                                       ]

[                                                      Trick or Treat                                        ]

[                                     All Saints' Day  All Hallows' Eve                              ]

[                                           Thanks for Playing                                           ]

 

 

 

Please.  These patch notes are obviously faked!  Look at the shadow on "Soon", the lighting is all wrong!  And if you zoom in on "Respec", you can see that there's no pixel bleed!

I know 'shopped patch notes when I see them, and I'm looking at one now.  What are you hiding, "@Troo"?!  Why are you afraid to let the truth be known?!

#FreeThePatchNotes

[lemming]

10 hours ago, Spaghetti Betty said:

Perfect. Soon the anxiety I've been experiencing opening up my character screen and seeing how many toons I wanna respec will turn into sheer horror as I begin the process of respeccing every toon I want to respec.

I have been going thru my 110 chars and seeing how many are being mothballed with the possibility of being revisited, and how many are just being stripped and deleted.   And then the rest need respecs.  Heck, I have some that I still haven't gotten to change since the travel changes. 😛

[shatterpoint]

11 hours ago, Spaghetti Betty said:

Perfect. Soon the anxiety I've been experiencing opening up my character screen and seeing how many toons I wanna respec will turn into sheer horror as I begin the process of respeccing every toon I want to respec.

Do respecs expire?

[ivanhedgehog]

wasnt this supposed to be just the first part of a larger patch because they wanted people to test the powers changes? I seem to remember that from when this started.

[Ruin Mage]

The Power changes came first, then the rest. All of it is on Beta right now.
 

• More Aether rewards (t1-t4)
• Sentinel Revamp
• Mastermind reworks/buffs
• Power changes (Fire, Battle Axe, etc)
• Stealth change
• Power Access Changes
• Illusion Control for Dominators
• Base Raids & Other PVP niceties
• Holstered Rifles (Assault, Munitions, Merc Masterminds)
• Stone Armor/Seismic Blast Proliferation to Sentinel

That's Page 5 for you.

Edited October 17, 2022 by Shadeknight

[ivanhedgehog]

2 minutes ago, Shadeknight said:

The Power changes came first, then the rest. All of it is on Beta right now.
 

• More Aether rewards (t1-t4)
• Sentinel Revamp
• Mastermind reworks/buffs
• Power changes (Fire, Battle Axe, etc)
• Stealth change
• Power Access Changes
• Illusion Control for Dominators
• Base Raids & Other PVP niceties
• Holstered Rifles (Assault, Munitions, Merc Masterminds)
• Stone Armor/Seismic Blast Proliferation to Sentinel

That's Page 5 for you.

ok, cool. That answered my question.😀

[Spaghetti Betty]

24 minutes ago, shatterpoint said:

Do respecs expire?

Nope. I just have around 30 toons that I play regularly. Out of the other 70, I'd surmise at least half of them will benefit greatly from the availability changes. Then there's all of my Axe toons that will need a hard look at after the revamp.

 

Don't have altitis, kids! Drugs are bad!

[shatterpoint]

2 minutes ago, Spaghetti Betty said:

Nope. I just have around 30 toons that I play regularly. Out of the other 70, I'd surmise at least half of them will benefit greatly from the availability changes. Then there's all of my Axe toons that will need a hard look at after the revamp.

I guess I don't get all the 'ball ache' of them handing out free respecs.

The characters won't be broken. 

Next question are the respecs mandatory when the character is logged in?

[Spaghetti Betty]

4 minutes ago, shatterpoint said:

Next question are the respecs mandatory when the character is logged in?

Absolutely not. It's more of a time investment than anything.

 

If you can't tell. I'm joke complaining. The changes are badass.

[Ceejer]

*Looks at alts*

*mumbling under breath*

5 pages of MMs. One of every Ill/* Controller. Didn't know I had that many Sentinels.

Should make one of every Ill Dom too. 

 

Altitus is real folks. 

[High_Beam]

I have the alts under control.  I swear.

 

Granted I have like a lot of Dual Pistols characters . . . three DP Blasters (MC, Time and Ninja), a DP/Kin Corr, a Time/DP Defender . . . crap I don't have a DP Sentinel . . . and Sentinels are getting love . . . So I could make a DP Sentinel and it would be for testing . . . yeah that's it.

 

Looks at watch to see how much longer before leave work . . . excellent.

 

 

[Ravenwulfe]

Interesting it's saying live now... But I am definitely anxious for Illusion Control Dominators. I have always wanted one since Issue 6. And they should have because illusion control has always been a staple villain power you know like Mysterio and Scarecrow.

[Troo]

FoTM guesses?

[TraumaTrain]

17 minutes ago, Troo said:

FoTM guesses?

 

Strawberry chocolate?

 

[Ravenwulfe]

50 minutes ago, TraumaTrain said:

 

Strawberry chocolate?

 

Cherry and chocolate marble cheesecake.